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* RarelyPerformedSong: His 1992 GriefSong "Tears in Heaven" was written for his 4-year-old son Conor, who died after falling from an apartment window. Come 2004, however, Clapton has stopped performing the song, citing being able to cope with the loss and no longer needing it. He additionally no longer performs his 1998 song "My Father's Eyes", which was inspired by growing up never knowing his father, for similar reasons.
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* BreakupBreakout: While already having success with a number of groups like Music/TheYardbirds, Music/{{Cream}}, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Music/DerekAndTheDominos, he was able to having a number of hits as a solo artist, typically a lot more than most of the other members of those groups.
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* BreakupBreakout: While already having success with a number of groups like Music/TheYardbirds, Music/{{Cream}}, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Music/DerekAndTheDominos, he was able to having have a number of hits as a solo artist, typically a lot more than most of the other members of those groups.the groups he was in (give or take [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page's work in another group]]).
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previous was written as a ymmv though this is a trivia.
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* BreakupBreakout: Averted: some rock fans who know him from Music/TheYardbirds, Music/{{Cream}}, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Music/DerekAndTheDominos hate his solo music.
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* BreakupBreakout: Averted: some rock fans who know him from While already having success with a number of groups like Music/TheYardbirds, Music/{{Cream}}, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Music/DerekAndTheDominos hate his Music/DerekAndTheDominos, he was able to having a number of hits as a solo music.artist, typically a lot more than most of the other members of those groups.
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* UncreditedRole: He played an uncredited guitar solo on Music/TheBeatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
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* CreatorBreakdown: After the death of his son, Conor, in 1991. He came back with "Tears in Heaven".
** And "Layla", his way of shouting out the pain from his unrequited love to Pattie Boyd, then-wife of his buddy Music/GeorgeHarrison.
*** What's more, he's admitted that pretty much everything he wrote for Music/DerekAndTheDominos is about Patti in some way.
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** And "Layla", his way of shouting out the pain from his unrequited love to Pattie Boyd, then-wife of his buddy Music/GeorgeHarrison.
*** What's more, he's admitted that pretty much everything he wrote for Music/DerekAndTheDominos is about Patti in some way.
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